s supreme court ruling is the US needs to get moving on comprehensive immigration reform On Thursday, the California supreme court ruled that Sergio C Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, could receive an official license to practice law in the state. Garcia came to the US at age 17 and has been waiting for an informal immigration visa for nearly 20 years . Immigration law expert Shamaine...
Sergio Garcia's case, which draws on existing law allowing all qualified applicants into state bar, was closely watched immigration test Ed Pilkington ...
s manufacturing exports to the US were under threat from China. By threat we mean sectors where China is gaining market share and Mexico is losing it. We also find that 96% of US exports to Mexico are under threat from China. In 2000, the US supplied Mexico with 60.8% of its office machine and computer imports and 70% of the peripheral parts for those machines. Ten years later, the US held only 10%...
t taking the problem seriously." The violence behind today's exodus stems from turf wars between street gangs such as the M-18 and Mara Salvatrucha, the growing power of drug cartels and woefully weak and corrupt state institutions across the region. Many of the refugees tell stories like that of Mirta, a 24-year-old Honduran woman travelling with her two small sons. After years living in New York,...
s tragedy into sharp focus Mexico's "narco war" between cartels and the government – claiming some 100,000 dead and 20,000 disappeared – now reaches well beyond trafficking. It brutalises society as the cartels take territory, become a state within a state in cahoots with corrupt politicians and law enforcement, and expand into oil, mining, prostitution and, above all, the business of migration to...
pain makes us feel uneasy or uncomfortable, it is easy to turn the other way. When those people are different, turning away is even easier. The things I have seen and heard in my work this year are what most people deem inappropriate for dinner conversation: decomposed bodies, orphaned children, soldiers with licenses to kill, military checkpoints, snipers, black hawk helicopters, drones, violated...
s oil wealth – had powered the resurgence of the Latin American left in the 21st century. With Chávez gone, the crowds returned again and again during the following weeks either to support or condemn his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who was always going to find it difficult to fill the huge political space left by his predecessor. As some clashes turned violent, there were a handful of deaths. But despite...
s religious writings as gospel. Hundreds of them used to convene to hear their leader's multi-hour sermons. But they are also brutal killers and methamphetamine dealers who extort everyone from big corporations to street vendors throughout Michoácan, according to residents and government officials. The Knights Templar group, which evolved out of a split from another drug gang, La Familia , has grown...
s nuclear safety director. Juan Eibenschutz, the director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards, said a robot was used to scoop up the dangerous material and deposit it in a safe container for transporting to a nuclear waste treatment facility. "It's been recovered, and it...
Men turned over to federal authorities over theft of cobalt-60 truck, after only one shows signs of radiation poisoning ...
s classic adventure would be Iñárritu's first putative blockbuster, though he has regularly shot in English – notably 21 Grams and the upcoming Birdman, a comedy starring Emma Stone and Michael Keaton. However, this live-action Jungle Book, written by Harry Potter's Steve Kloves and back by Warner Bros, is facing serious competition in the shape of a similar project from Disney , which earlier this...
s atomic watchdog says truck was taking cobalt-60 from a hospital to a radioactive waste storage centre when it was stolen Mexican police have found a truck containing radioactive material that was stolen as it was being transported from a hospital near Mexico City. Thieves who removed the cobalt-60, which is used in hospitals to treat some cancer, from its protective container have been exposed to...
s programme tackles the issues head on – as exemplified by his look at how Mexico's drug cartels are exploiting social media Q with Jian Ghomeshi A bleak week for CBC , the home of public service broadcasting in Canada, where 650 jobs are being cut over the next three years to make up for a $115m (£66m) funding black hole. "It's been a very difficult day," tweeted Jian Ghomeshi , the nation's radio...
After undergoing surgery for 17 hours and two years of intense physiotherapy, a double arm transplant patient uses his new limbs ...
Mexican film-maker Adriana Trujillo tells the story of Felix, a part-time actor who earns his money smuggling people across the walled and fenced frontier between Mexico and the United States ...
Two bodies found in wreckage and two more people missing after private plane flying to Mexico went into Atlantic Ocean The US coast guard has said two people are dead and another two missing after a Learjet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida en route to Mexico. Authorities said a boat crew located the wreckage of the private plane about two miles (3.2km) northeast of Fort Lauderdale airport,...
We chart the routes of, and reasons for, the barriers which are once again dividing populations Mark Rice-Oxley Andrew Mason Daan Louter Matthias Stolz ...
s Jonathan Freedland of Pope Francis, and it's true that most of the surprises have been good ones. His statements denouncing capitalism are of the kind that scarcely any party leader now dares to breathe. He appears to have renounced papal infallibility. He intends to reform the corrupt and scheming Curia , the central bureaucracy of the Catholic church. He has declared a partial truce in the war...